43,544. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin
43,545. Fill ev’ry glass, for wine inspires us.
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous? John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera 1728
43,546. A lot of people in this country poo-poo Australian table wines ... Quite the reverse is true of Chateau Chunder. Monty Python's Flying Circus audio sketch ‘Chateau Chunder’ 1972
43,547. The Australians made wine that we wanted, and they asked us what we liked, that had never happened in the world of wine before. Oz Clark
43,548. It’s the biggest question in the history of wine – how did an unfashionable backwater with no track record in a notoriously elitest business go from making Chateau Chunder to become the toast of the international wine world? Chateau Chunder: When Australian Wine Changed the World, BBC 2012
43,549. The French had been making wine since the sixth century B.C. ibid.
43,550. Binge drinking beer was standard practice, even applauded. ibid.
43,551. There actually was a wine called Kanga-rouge. ibid.
43,552. Chardonnay: the new weapon of choice. ibid.
43,553. Goon bags continued to be an essential part of life for many Australians. ibid.
43,554. Viticultural extremists smashed up cultural wine imports. ibid.
43,555. Britain’s enthusiasm for Australian wine was matched by the Americans. ibid.
43,556. The Number One wine-importing country to the UK. ibid.
43,557. Australian wine was facing a crisis. ibid.
43,558. One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters ... But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. (Wine & Drunk) Charles Baudelaire
43,559. I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to food. (Wine & Food) W C Fields
43,560. It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine ... it’s summertime! (Wine & Summer) Kenny Chesney
43,561. As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. (Wine & Food) Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
96,184. In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well-being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. ibid.
43,562. Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing. Ernest Hemingway
43,564. The wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing ... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told. Homer, The Odyssey
43,565. In wine there’s truth. Pliney the Elder
43,566. Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares. Ralph Waldo Emerson
43,567. Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. Andre Simon
43,568. White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquefied beefsteak. James Joyce
43,569. Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. Plautus
43,570. I’m only drinking white wine because I’m on a diet and I don’t eat. (Wine & Diet) Oliver Reed
43,571. They are not long, the days of wine and roses. (Wine & Rose & Day) Ernest Dowson
43,572. We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless. (Wine & Day & Cannabis & Heroin & Life's Like That) Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
43,573. Wine in, truth out. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby ch27
43,574. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape,
Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. John Milton, Comus II 46
43,576. And must I wholly banish hence
These red and golden juices,
And pay my vows to Abstinence,
That pallidest of Muses? William Watson, To a Maiden Who Bade Me Shun Wine
73,871. Wine is sunlight, held together by water. (Galileo & Wine) Galileo Galilei
79,772. Do you have wine? I can’t sleep without wine. (Fantasy & Wine) Game of Thrones: Sons of the Harpy s5e4
95,146. The Mad Hatter: Would you like some wine?
Alice: Yes …
The Mad Hatter: We haven’t any and you’re too young. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
125,081. You can see how the branches of the vines are all twisting, tortuous. It’s very traditional … It’s phantasmagoric. (Wine & Fake & Fraud) Sour Grapes, 2016, Laurent Ponsot, winemaker
125,082. I guess the auction scene really started in the 90s in the dot-com boom. Everybody was making money. They developed this culture of very wealthy collectors gathering at these auctions to be see and be seen, to be seen bidding. And the prices really started to escalate. (Wine & Fake & Fraud) ibid. Jay McInerney, wine writer
125,083. 2000 or early 2001: we were doing auctions and I started being aware of you know a skinny, geeky guy that liked wine. (Wine & Fake & Fraud) ibid. Maureen Downey, wine consultant
125,084. Rudy Kurniawan inhabits a high-rolling club of wine fanatics to whom money’s no object. Young and hip, he’s upped the wine ante. (Wine & Fake & Fraud) ibid. Corie Brown, Times staff writer
125,085. Between 2003 and 2006 John Kapon sells more than $35 million of wine from Rudy’s cellar. (Wine & Fake & Fraud) ibid. caption
125,086. Everything with this fellow kept coming up fake. (Wine & Fake & Fraud) ibid. investigator
125,087. In 2011, Bill Koch’s lawyers interviewed Rudy about counterfeit bottles Koch had bought from another collector. The bottles had originated from Rudy’s cellar. (Wine & Fake & Fraud) ibid. caption
125,088. There was everything you would need to make fake wine. (Wine & Fake & Fraud) ibid. FBI raid Rudy’s house
125,089. Rudy is charged and taken to a detention centre in New York City. Deemed a flight risk, he is not given bail. (Wine & Fake & Fraud) ibid. caption
125,090. Who backed it? Where did this money come from? Who created it? (Wine & Fake & Fraud) ibid. investigator
136,077. This isn’t rustic wine-making of course; this region is producing wine on a truly industrial scale. Just a few miles from Hardy’s vineyard is the biggest winery in the southern hemisphere. (Australia & Wine) Australia with Simon Reeve I, BBC 2020
20,021. I like to drink wine more than I used to. (GBH Films & Gangs US: New York & Mafia US: New York & Mafia: US & Mafia & Wine) The Godfather 1972 starring Marlon Brando & Al Pacino & James Caan & Richard S Castellano & Richard Duvall & Sterling Hayden & John Marley & Richard Conte & Diane Keaton et al, director Francis Ford Coppola, Don to Michael
93,329. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. Psalms 75:8